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Finding hazardous asteroids using infrared and visible wavelength telescopes
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- Book Synopsis
- "Near Earth objects (NEOs) have the potential to cause significant damage on Earth. In December 2018, an asteroid exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea (western Pacific Ocean) with the explosive force of nearly 10 times that of the Hiroshima bomb. While the frequency of NEO impacts rises in inverse proportion to their sizes, it is still critical to monitor NEO activity in order to prepare defenses for these rare but dangerous threats. Currently, NASA funds a network of ground-bas
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- ISBN
- 9780309493987
- Format
- Book
- Publisher
- the National Academies Press, (09 October 2019)
- Weight
- 204 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 279 x 216 x 8 mm
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